An ongoing journal of building an "off-the-grid" solar homestead, life, boring tedious stuff, knee-jerk eco-socialist opinion, work (as little as possible) and family---from the edge of the wilderness (where the Sierra meets the Cascades).

Saturday, April 25, 2009

In Goes The Garden...

Kylie and Joni have been working on the eight garden beds today:

Here they are planting carrots on a sheet of toilet paper (non-perfumed):

For this bed, Joni is trying the "square foot gardening" technique. She is trying to get the most amount of produce possible for the size of the bed:

We have potatoes planted in this bed. Nothing sprouting yet...

Tomatoes, peppers and broccoli:

This is our strawberry bed. We have had exactly one strawberry thus far!

More tomatoes...

This is Kylie's peace garden. She is planting various items here. She says that she is planting this garden solely for the wild critters we have running around here. They are welcome to eat anything from this patch:

Our neighbors say that our garden is gonna be eaten by the deer and the jackrabbits (and other critters). We have asked them (the wildlife) not to do this. The wild critters are welcome to everything else on the property. I have also pee'd around the periphery of the garden, as a reminder...